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I'm not terribly surprised, based on my own experiences. Perhaps really taking the suffering of others in, would cause a sort of cognitive dissonance that the theistic mind knows to stay well away from. It constantly injects itself with the appeasing drug of faith that God knows what he's doing.

Listen to the trembling emotion in Hitchens' voice here, how deeply and truly disturbed and angry it makes him feel:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoE1ho4Hhc[/youtube]